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Repairs

By DonutShoes on February 18, 2024 9:48 pm

It was real hard to make music this week. I had so many cool ideas but every time I tried to work on them I just fizzled out and got frustrated. Been feeling a little stuck creatively, which is usually a sign that I need to find some other creative outlet besides what I tell myself I "should" be doing.

Today I took the cigar box guitar that I built a few months ago and decided to get to some adjustments and repairs I'd been wanting to do on it. It needed some sound holes and the 3 way switch was a bit misaligned. I also wanted to restring and retune it. It's now tuned to DGBE, like the last (first?) 4 strings on a guitar.

I've been building cigar box-like guitars for a few years now, but the thing is I don't really know how to play them. I can sorta play ukulele and the new tuning works w/ ukulele chord shapes so there's that.

In the end for this week, after fixing my guitar I spent about a couple hours recording something short, sweet, and easy using the guitar, a polystyrene resonator one-string instrument I built, and a marimba swarm kontakt library. Something moody to fit my moody mood.

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Moody, but moody good! It sounds like the kind of music I'd expect to be playing in Borderlands at night.

Simple but still really lovely and full of character smile

I am impressed by your skills. The mood in here is fantastic and inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Moody stogey

I like the thirds ostinato from the beginning & how it kind of drifts a little. also cool how it rubs a little with the pads. moody!

this has a nice spacious feel, sort of ominous but very pretty at the same time

Well done!

I've sampled this track under the CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) license for my upcoming track “ α - β - γ - δ - ε - ζ - η - θ - ι - κ - λ - μ - ν - ξ - ο - π - ο - ξ - ν - μ - λ - κ - ι - θ - η - ζ - ε - δ - γ - β - α”.

If I am to re-sample “α - β - γ - δ - ε - ζ - η - θ - ι - κ - λ - μ - ν - ξ - ο - π - ο - ξ - ν - μ - λ - κ - ι - θ - η - ζ - ε - δ - γ - β - α” again for future work, I will just put the attribution in the new track, as not to spam the comment field of this track with more than one comment, that is; unless you request me to also put it here again.

I'm very much enjoying this. Understated, with a bit of menace. Definitely moody. Awesome vibes!

i love the soft vibe going on

Sampled again for the 6th (and, most likely, final) time for next week track “phase 1”, concluding Q1.

This week's “alpha ⋰ omega ⋱ alpha” is a more compact iteration.

Thanks for your inspiring sound!

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